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A staff post by Nicola Scott, Collections Management Assistant at The Hunterian. The Hunterian has an abundance of displays and sites to explore; from the Zoology Museum in the Graham Kerr Building to the newest edition of the Orientation Space at Kelvin Hall. There is, however, another, lesser known Hunterian exhibition space. Seventy miles away… Continue reading →

A staff post by Dr Nicky Reeves, Curator of Scientific Instruments at The Hunterian. On Monday, February 12, 2018 The Hunterian was delighted to attend a reception hosted by The Principal to acknowledge the bequest to the School of Physics and Astronomy of £500,000 from the estate of Professor Ronald Drever to fund a scholarship… Continue reading →

A staff post by Dr Maria Economou and Hilary Young from the University of Glasgow EMOTIVE team. European Researchers’ Night, or Explorathon as it is known across Scotland, has become an established event in researchers’ public engagement calendar going from strength to strength across Europe since 2005 when it started, and since 2014 in Scotland.… Continue reading →

A staff post from Nicola Scott and Becky Smith, Collections Management Assistants at The Hunterian. Doors Open Day 2017 was a landmark occasion for The Hunterian at Kelvin Hall. It saw the first public tours of the new museum store! The Doors Open Day tours were a chance for us to show people what we… Continue reading →

A staff post by Dr Neil Clark, Curator of Palaeontology at The Hunterian. Dr Christine Strullu-Derrien of Angers, France and the Natural History Museum, London visited the collections of The Hunterian last week. Her main interest is in looking at the earliest terrestrial fungal/plant associations from the Devonian age (about 410 million years old) Rhynie… Continue reading →

A staff post by Jesper Ericsson, Curatorial Assistant at The Hunterian. Some years ago, a gold University of Glasgow prize medal for ‘Hebrew Class’ was found in an antiques shop in north Wales. On the edge, the inscription revealed that the recipient was Vernon C Clarke, and that he had been awarded the medal in… Continue reading →

A staff post by Jesper Ericsson, Curatorial Assistant at The Hunterian. The production of aluminium in Scotland stretches back more than a century. Harnessing hydroelectric power, it beckoned a new era of industry for the Highlands, seen previously as a remote and inaccessible part of the country. A lightweight and versatile metal, Scottish aluminium was… Continue reading →

A staff post by Harriet Gaston, Communications Manager at The Hunterian. Moving office can be almost as bad as moving house. It does, however, make you get round to tasks previously avoided. One of the major tasks I had to undertake before we moved to our lovely new offices at Kelvin Hall was the sorting… Continue reading →

A staff post by Lizzie O’Neill, Digital Collections Manager at The Hunterian and Harriet Gaston, Communications Manager at The Hunterian. This week, we were delighted to welcome Dr Michaela Appel from The Museum Fünf Kontinente in Germany and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki from Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. They visited the Hunterian Museum and our… Continue reading →

A student post from Jade Scott, former Hunterian Associate. Jade has recently submitted her PhD in English Language and is preparing for her viva. Her thesis examines the exile experience and agency of a sixteenth-century noblewoman, Lady Anne Percy, through her surviving letters. She also works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the department of… Continue reading →